Privacy Policy

When we refer to Sentinel (or ‘we’ or ‘our’ or ‘us’) this means Sentinel Regulatory Services Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Our registered address is 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are obliged to comply with the relevant applicable legislation regarding the collection, processing and disposal of personal data for data subjects. This must be processed lawfully and transparently.

In providing services to you, we may collect, process and control your personal data including information such as your name, business title, email address, telephone number and postal address. In addition, in order to satisfy our regulatory and legal requirements when providing a service to you, we may collect additional sensitive personal data including any relevant information surrounding your credit history, criminal record, and any other due diligence needed to comply with Anti-Money Laundering regulation.  

When you visit our website, we may ask you to provide personal data to us for us to be able to contact you or provide relevant regulatory notifications to you. You are not obliged to provide us with personal data, however, we will be unable to contact you without this information.

We will process and store your data securely and will only keep it for as long as we need it for legal and regulatory purposes. As we have laid out in the ‘what types of personal data does Sentinel collect’ section above, we may use your data for the provision of providing services to you, administering your contracted account with us, promoting thought leadership and events to you, responding to your enquiries, preventing and detecting potential illegal activity and all other related matters that we are obligated to comply with under our regulatory and legal requirements.

Under the relevant regulation, we will be acting as a data controller of any personal data you provide us. We are required under regulation to ensure our systems, processes, providers and employees comply with the relevant data protection laws.

We may, occasionally, as required by law and regulation, pass personal data to the Financial Conduct Authority and other relevant regulatory authorities, government bodies including tax authorities and courts, complaint resolution services and law enforcement agencies.

When providing our services to you, we may share your personal data to our service providers such as I.T. companies and professional advisers including legal, audit and accounting. 

We will only keep your personal data in the United Kingdom and European Union. We will only keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purpose(s) for which it is collected and the legal and regulatory requirements upon us to retain it.

You have certain rights relating to your personal data, including:

• The right to request copies of the personal data that we hold about you
• The right to request amendments to the personal data we hold about you if it is inaccurate or out of date
• The right to erase your personal data if we permitted to under relevant regulation
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data if we are permitted to under relevant regulation
• The right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office or other relevant authority
• The right to not be subject to automated decision making and profiling. Sentinel does not make decisions on such a basis

If you would like to access your data or exercise your personal data rights, you can write to contact@sentinel-rs.com, at any time.